Victor Hugo Quotes
Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country; the strife will be colossal.
Quotes to Explore
-
Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
-
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
-
I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
-
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
-
There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do that. When you're looking at the story from the outside, you can create whatever twists and turns you want. But when you're writing, you're inside the characters' heads, and you see that they may be motivated to do something different.
-
People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.
-
Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of China. It's an all right wall. It's the 'All Right Wall of China.'
-
If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.
-
Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.
-
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
-
I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
-
I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
-
In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
-
I met Powel Crosley at an All-Star Game in 1935. He was familiar, of course, with our winning record at Rochester. We seemed to hit it off immediately, and the following year, when he was looking for a successor to Larry MacPhail, he thought of me.
-
It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.
-
I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse.'
-
It's easy to say, 'I'm going to build something that already exists,' but it's difficult to clearly and succinctly describe something new.
-
My intention throughout has been to write, to create literature, and to be able to look people in the eye after I'd done it - the people I'd written about.
-
During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.
-
The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall.
-
Everybody is overlooking me. I just want to show the world that, hey, he is in there with a live dog. He is not in there with a little puppy. He is in there with a live dog. I am going to show the world that he belongs with the best; he wants to fight the best. This is the guy that has heart and balls that gives everything in the ring, that's what he wants.
-
Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake.
-
Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country; the strife will be colossal.
